In 1Corinthians 15:45 (Amplified) Paul, by revelation, reveals the First Adam and the Last Adam, Jesus. The First Adam never had to do the ministry of the Last Adam, because nothing was out of place, at the beginning of man on this earth. The Curse only came, after Adam transgressed in the Garden. Prior to Adam's fall, the Blessing and Spirit of God was working through and for Adam. We see the results of the Curse working at an alarming rate on the earth, during the Last Adam, Jesus' ministry.
Jesus stated in Luke 4:18-19 (Amplified), "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me (the Anointed One, the Messiah), to preach the Good News (the Gospel) to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth as delivered to those who are oppressed, who are down trodden, bruised, crushed and broken down by calamity. To proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord, the day when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound (Isaiah 61:1-2)."
Before the First Adam transgressed, there was no need to preach or to deliver from bondage, because there was only the Blessing and not the Curse upon the earth. The Curse came about only after Adam's fall, which wasn't God's Original Intent for His family. God's Plan never changed concerning His family.
The Last Adam, Jesus came to restore the family that was and is the heart of the Father, back to Him. During His earthly ministry, Jesus only spoke, lived and demonstrated the Blessing and the Original Intent of God's Plan, for His children. Jesus restored those who had succumbed to the Curse and were sick, lame, dumb, blind, under the spirits of darkness, leprous, or were in any way other than God's Original Intent. Jesus restored the Blessing to those people. Through Jesus, this extended beyond just the Chosen people and now encompassed even the Gentiles. This was God's Original Intent from the beginning. We are all called to be His Chosen people!
We lost the purpose and intent of God's heart for us, because we never looked beyond the flesh and fallen nature of man. Today, we deal with such things as death, sickness, hardship, and hunger, but these were never God's Original Intent for His family. We've been conned into believing and accepting these things as being "God's teaching us something with these things." This might be the greatest lie, satan ever sold to the Church. And we bought it. Genesis 1-2 never says that God brought all these terrible things into being, but Genesis 1:31 (Amplified) tells us that all things were "very good." Thus, it says, "And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good (suitable, pleasant), and He approved it completely. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day."
Notice that God didn't make sickness, disease, death and all the other things we attribute to His idea of what man was to have or be. We've read about the scriptures, by the deception satan brought through the First Adam and have nearly forgotten the redemptive ministry of the Last Adam. Jesus taught us to pray in Matthew 6:10-13 (Amplified) saying, "Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." I don't know whether or not you believe there are sick, blind or lame people in Heaven, but I don't. In Verse 13 Jesus goes on praying, Lead (bring us) not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one."
We've missed the entire purpose of this prayer, thinking that whatever happens on earth, "Must be God's will." John 8:19 (Amplified) says, "Then they said to [Jesus], Where is this Father of Yours? Jesus answered, You know My Father as little as you know Me. If you knew Me, you would know My Father also." Is it that we really don't know Jesus, that we've mixed up our ideas about God? Or, are we still so carnally minded that we try separating God from Jesus, as being two separate entities? We continue believing God deals with the us (the new covenant people), like He dealt with the old covenant people. We've failed to understand that through Jesus, we've been returned to the Original Intent God had for His family and that God now deals with us by His Spirit, just like He did with the Last Adam, Jesus Christ.
We've seemingly accepted the lie that says, "Whatever happens to us in our lives, must be God's will for us and that He allows it to happen, in order to teach us something." Just prior to His Ascension, Jesus told His followers in John 14:26, that, "He would send the Holy Spirit to teach us." 2Timothy 3:16 tells us that, "God Word is there to teach and correct us." Paul tells us in Ephesians 4:11-14 (Amplified) that God sends the five-fold ministry for "The perfecting and full equipping of His saints to do the work of ministering to the building up of the Church." Jesus told the people in John 15:3 that they were "Cleansed already by the Words and teachings." I never used blindness, cancer, sickness, to educate and teach my family.
When we cannot distinguish our Heavenly Father from our enemy, we cannot withstand the enemy's attacks. 1Peter 5:8-9 (Amplified) describes the devil as being "our adversary" and instructs us to "withstand him." If we don't know whether it's God testing us or the devil trying to deliver us, then we're double-minded.
Hebrews 1:1-3 (Amplified) tells us that Jesus is always the "Sole Expression of the Glory of God (the Light-Being, the Out-raying or Radiance of the Divine), and He is the Perfect Imprint and very Image of God's nature." Jesus said that, "When you see Me, you have seen the Father." Can you imagine Jesus putting sickness on someone, in order to teach and train them? Can you see Jesus leaving sickness to remain on someone, until that person learns their lesson? Why then, would you believe that God would do that? It's hard for God to Bless us, when we trust more in the Curse, than in the Blessing.
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